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*** ACSOS 2020 - Call For Doctoral Symposium Papers ***
1st Joint ICAC/SASO International Conference on
Autonomic Computing and Self-Organizing Systems
17-21 August 2020 – Washington, DC & Online
https://2020.acsos.org/
https://twitter.com/ACSOSconf
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The goal of the IEEE International Conference on Autonomic
Computing and Self-Organizing Systems (ACSOS) is to provide a
forum for sharing the latest research results, ideas and
experiences in autonomic computing, self-adaptation and
self-organization. ACSOS was founded in 2020 as a merger of the
IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC) and
the IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and
Self-Organizing Systems (SASO). For more information about the
merger, as well as up-to-date news, see https://conf.researchr.org/news/acsos-2020
or follow us at https://twitter.com/ACSOSconf!
The Doctoral Symposium provides an international forum for PhD
students working in ACSOS-related research fields to present
their work to a diverse audience of leading experts in the
field, to gain both insightful feedback and discussion points
around their research as well as the invaluable experience of
presenting new research to an international audience. The
symposium has a strong history, though ICAC and SASO, of
connecting young researchers with highly experienced peers to
forge connections which can last for many years.
PhD students are invited to submit a two-page abstract, with
another page for references, which should use the below format
to describe the key motivation of their research, the major
contribution (either actual or expected, depending on the
research stage), discuss their methodology, and present the
current status of the research. Authors of accepted papers will
have the opportunity to present their work both at the doctoral
symposium and in brief at the main conference itself, offering a
very wide audience for their research.
Students at any stage of their PhD are welcome to submit.
Reviews, feedback, and expectations will be adapted
appropriately to the relative stage of each submission.
*** Important Dates ***
June 3, 2020: Paper submission deadline
June 24, 2020: Paper acceptance notification
July 8, 2020: Camera ready deadline
*** Mentoring Program ***
This year the Doctoral Symposium will employ a mentoring
program, in which every author of an accepted paper will be
paired with an experienced mentor from the community. Mentors
will help introduce the student to the community, offer extended
discussion of their research objectives and career
opportunities, and will host their students throughout the event
to help gain the best experience from an international
conference.
*** Submission Instructions ***
Submissions should use the IEEE Computer Society Press format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html)
and should be a maximum of 2 pages long, with an extra page
permitted for references.
Authors should submit their abstracts to EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsos20
Because the doctoral symposium focuses on the work of specific
PhD students, please note that only single-author submissions
are permitted, with the name of the PhD supervisor included
below that of the author.
All submissions should have the following specific structure:
Motivation and challenges: explain why this research is
important, and identify the key research question and challenges
that have yet to be addressed by the community - including
limitations of current approaches
Contribution and objectives: present the main contribution of
the research, in a way that a non-expert could clearly
understand, then present the detailed objectives of your
research, highlighting why your work is novel in comparison to
existing research
Methodology and preliminary results: present the methodology of
your approach, discussing why it is suitable to your
contribution, and also present any preliminary results if you
have them
Future work and research plan: summarise your intended future
work, and provide a schedule of milestones with a discussion of
their feasibility
Authors of accepted submissions will prepare a final
(camera-ready) version of their abstract, taking into account
reviewers’ feedback. Doctoral symposium papers will be submitted
to IEEE Xplore as part of the ACSOS proceedings and will be made
available in the IEEE Digital Library.
*** Symposium Organisers ***
Phyllis Nelson, California State Polytechnic University Pomona,
USA - prnelson@cpp.edu
Barry Porter, Lancaster University, UK - b.f.porter@lancaster.ac.uk